I think this song "Brakhage" is a joyful reminder of how arrogant and self-absorbed our human species can be. For the literati reading this, I think the Hegelian dialectic of the master/slave is invoked here: "We can be bound, run around / Fooled animal bite its tail". To be blunt, I think Laetitia Sadier wrote this to mean we humans can be lame by thinking that all our technology, materialism, and know-how gives us freedom and makes us 'free', when rather we could actually be the ones that are enslaved to our own devices.
I think this song "Brakhage" is a joyful reminder of how arrogant and self-absorbed our human species can be. For the literati reading this, I think the Hegelian dialectic of the master/slave is invoked here: "We can be bound, run around / Fooled animal bite its tail". To be blunt, I think Laetitia Sadier wrote this to mean we humans can be lame by thinking that all our technology, materialism, and know-how gives us freedom and makes us 'free', when rather we could actually be the ones that are enslaved to our own devices.
@juvenescence9 Stan Brakhage visited my college and showed his short film "He was Born, He Suffered, He Died"
@juvenescence9 Stan Brakhage visited my college and showed his short film "He was Born, He Suffered, He Died"